Alameda County Biographies
IRMA I. MOON, D. O.
Transcribed by Kathy Sedler
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Among the women who have entered the medical profession and proven that their ability
is equal to that of brother practitioners is Dr. Irma I. Moon of Oakland, who has her offices
in the Union Savings Bank building and who, by the consensus of public opinion, is accounted
one of the most skilled and learned representatives of the medical fraternity. Dr. Moon is a
native of Colusa county, California, and in her girlhood days went to San Jos�, where she
attended high school. Having decided to take up the practice of medicine as her life work, she
entered the Pacific College of Osteopathy in Los Angeles. The faculty of this college includes
many regular medical practitioners, as well as osteopathic practitioners. Its students, therefore,
have an unusual opportunity to gain an unprejudiced knowledge of the different systems of
treating diseases. The school ranks today among the foremost in America, and it was from this
institution that Dr. Moon was graduated. Immediately afterward she established an office in
Oakland, and since 1905 she has continuously enjoyed a growing practice in the city�a practice
that is now very extensive.
Dr. Moon belongs to the American, Bay and State Medical Associations, which were
organized to further the interests of osteopathy through uniting the members of that branch of
practice more closely. They have also thus been enabled to keep their practice upon a high
ethical standard. Since taking up professional duties, Dr. Moon has been an active member of
those organizations. She is also well known in social circles of Oakland and is a member of the
Home Club and of the Eastern Star.
Past & Present of Alameda County, California � Vol II, S. J. Clarke Publ. Co., 1914, p. 78